It can convey 2 different sides. for instance, look at the photo that is uploaded. it shows that Hoover is a bad president, but on the other hand, it shows that FDR is a good one. Hoover didn't do a lot of things during the Great Depression, but Franklin Roosevelt helped solve a lot of problems. There's a positive and negative side.
The most accurate way to describe the excerpt is to choose the option - it is a dependent clause. This means that something needs to be added - you need to finish the sentence so that it becomes an independent clause, and not a subordinate one.
Italicized in a Short Story!
The correct option is: <em>the reader could set his or her own pace and reread parts for clarity.</em>
When we read a text, we are able to do it in <em>our own pace</em>, <em>managing our time</em>, and <em>reading again</em> the parts we could not understand the first time.
On the other hand, <em>listening to audios</em> (or watching videos) can easily <em>affect our emotional perception</em> about a particular theme.